Godfather of national football

Chapter 51

This kid attracted Klinsmann's attention very early on. He is 1 meters tall and a natural center forward material. Klinsmann himself was a center forward back then, so he cherishes center forward talents, but Bayern has too many youth training talents, and Sené has not shown superior strength.

In his previous life, Li Guo was a die-hard fan of Bayern Munich. When Sené made his debut in the Audi Cup in 2009, the famous CCTV commentator was also a die-hard fan of Bayern. Tao Wei said that Sené is likely to be the pillar of Bayern's forward line in the future.

But then I don’t know why, Sene seemed to have evaporated from the world. Later, Li Guo learned from Du Niang Bayern’s post bar that Sene eventually went to the American Major League. His intuition told Li Guo that something must have happened in the middle, but it should be an internal secret of Bayern.

After hearing Li Guo's words, Klinsmann nodded. Li Guo didn't say much, but he hoped that his words could change Sene's future at Bayern.

Klinsmann was very polite, "Your team is here for training these days, and if you need anything, just tell my assistant,"

"Then I thank you in advance,"

"but……"

"Jurgen, just be straightforward with me," Li Guo said.

"Well, how intense do you want the competition to be?"

Li Guo understood. It turned out that Klinsmann was worried about this. The so-called warm-up match was a performance.There is a slight sweating, which is really for the purpose of warming up.There are also really tense ones, just like in official games.

As a head coach, both sides must understand what the scale of the game is, which is related to the formation of troops.

Li Guo smiled slightly, "I hope your team will show its true skills,"

Klinsmann smiled, with a disdainful expression on his face, "Li Guo, let me tell you the truth, these little guys are not much worse than Ribery and Tony's group. Are you sure you want them to play 100% of their strength?"

"Of course, I lead the team to warm up for the Olympics. Do you think the opponents in the Olympics will show mercy to me?"

Klinsmann nodded and said nothing, "Okay, I understand."

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About 1 people came to the Allianz Arena on the day of the game. For a game of this nature, it is a bit surprising that so many spectators can come. At a glance, about one-third of the audience is Chinese, and it is estimated that they are overseas Chinese or students studying in Munich.

The Chinese team played with all the main players, just like when they played Qatar in Doha, and Bayern also sent all the main players of the second team.

The goalkeeper was Kraft. Li Guo knew that he played the main force for half a year under Van Gaal and was finally replaced by Bout.

The defense is led by Badstuber, Alaba, Muller and others are in the midfield, and the Frenchman Sené is on the forward line.

After the start of the game, the Chinese team was very active, probably because of the excitement of novelty. After all, this is the first time for Chinese players to play in Allianz.

But soon the home team Bayern second team gradually took advantage. In fact, strictly speaking in this game, Bayern players are of the age of the national youth team, while the Chinese team is of the age of the National Olympic team. In this regard, the Chinese team is taking advantage.

But it’s not like that in the game. Bayern’s post-90s generation played vigorously, especially Alaba. His breakthrough on the wing basically killed Mu Fei in seconds.

"Zone defense!"

"What's the sound?" Li Guo was taken aback. "The defensive midfielder, full back, and center back form a triangle defense."

"Are you? Allardyce?"

Li Guo immediately recognized the strong British English, but the other party didn't answer, but just repeated - "area defense".

"It seems that Allardyce's experience has been downloaded," Li Guo thought to himself.

Li Guo called Mu Fei over, "You, Zhou Dun, and Li Weifeng formed a triangle area to defend. Players like Alaba cannot rely on man-to-man."

Mu Fei nodded, and returned to the court with Li Weifeng and Zhou Dun. After whispering a few words, the three immediately formed a defensive triangle.

In nature, the triangle is the most stable geometric figure, and it is the same on the court. Whether it is offense or defense, it is very important to run out of the triangle in a group of three.

Sure enough, after the change of the Chinese team, Alaba lost his sharpness in the opening game. He could break through one or two players, but he couldn’t beat three players in a row. Seeing this, Li Guo secretly clenched his fists and thought: “These 14 points are worth it.”

But before Li Guo was happy for a while, the situation on the court changed suddenly. The players of Bayern's second team changed too fast, and they couldn't break through from the wing, so they started to make long passes because they had a big center in the penalty area.

At this time, the Chinese team's defense tended to the side, and the defense in the middle was empty. In the 20th minute of the first half, Alaba made a curve ball pass, and Sené in the middle jumped high and smashed the ball into the goal of the Chinese team, 1-0.

The ball happened so fast that Li Guo didn't even see it clearly. It was only after watching the replay that Yin Di was still 5 meters away when Sené headed the ball. This obviously meant that he had lost his defensive position, but Yin Di couldn't be blamed. Zhou Dun was moved to the side, and the distance between the two central defenders was huge, so Yin Di moved closer to Zhou Dun.

It can only be said that the Chinese team still showed shortcomings when facing the top European giants. After conceding the ball, Li Guo kept gesturing to encourage the players. Against a team like Bayern, we must not relax in momentum.

But 5 minutes later, the Chinese team lost the ball again. This time it was Muller who scored the goal. Li Guo still saw the whole process clearly from the slow playback.

Just taking advantage of such an insignificant opportunity, Thomas Muller cut into the penalty area and pushed. Wang Dalei could only watch the ball roll into the far corner of the goal, and the score became 2-0.

At this time, the happiest people in the stadium are the Bayern fans. Usually they rarely see the players of the second team play. Today, they found out that the second team has such a group of excellent players.

Faced with this situation, Li Guo was stunned. After all, he had never studied professional coaching courses. It was okay to play downwind and put on a show on the sidelines, but once the situation was very passive, Li Guo was really helpless.

At this moment, the voice in Li Guo's mind sounded again—"Switch on Gao Lin, and play a long pass."

"A long pass?"

"Yeah, I do that a lot in the Premier League."

"Can you tell me why?"

"No, I only tell you what to do, I don't need to tell you why, believe me, the skill of coaching cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences."

Li Guo gave a "hmm" in his heart, and then according to Allardyce's instructions, he replaced Gao Lin and Chen Gelin.

(End of this chapter)